Nora Suren researches social media cultures, influencers/digital content creators, and platformization of creative labor using digital ethnographic methods and in-depth interviews. Her research interests also include issues of identity, femininity, and social advocacy.

Keywords: influencers, content creators, precarity, social media, algorithms, visibility, gender, identity, authoritarianism

Recent work-in-progress:

• My dissertation chapter that I’m submitting to a conference: Unraveling Algorithmic Bias: A Journey Through the World of Politicized Alternative Creators
• My RA paper that I’m submitting to a conference with Jane: Unveiling Narratives: Asian American TikTok Creators Resisting Anti-Black Crime Stereotypes and Cultivating Solidarity